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Pink slip
Definitions
- 1 A notice of termination of employment. idiomatic, metonymically
"Pink slips are being handed out faster in corporate America than you can say, “Recession? What recession?”"
- 2 official notice that you have been fired from your job wordnet
- 3 The title document for an automobile. US
"But when she visited the bank, all she found inside were the pink slip to her car, a passport she′d acquired two years ago before a vacation trip to Australia and a few other documents."
- 4 An automobile roadworthiness inspection certificate. Australia, New-South-Wales
"My car mechanic does the pink slip for my bike - he doesn't know anything about them but does know that I keep it in tip top condition."
- 1 To terminate the employment of. US, informal, transitive
"After a week of anxiously watching the mailbox through little Japanese binoculars his wife had given him for a going-away present (she'd left him the day after he was pink-slipped) and getting nothing but sucker-list stuff through the regular deliveries that came each noon, he was jolted out of a boozy, black-and-white dream of jumping off The Stack into rush-hour traffic, by an insistent banging at the door."
Etymology
From pink + slip (“piece of paper”), referring to the colour of the paper, in some cases as it was in past, and not necessarily present, practice. * (automobile title): Most likely from California, where the title is printed on a smaller index-card sized piece of pink paper; in other states the title is typically a full-size 8 1/2" x 11" sheet, usually printed on blue or blue-green paper with borders, similar to a stock certificate.
From pink + slip (“piece of paper”), referring to the colour of the paper, in some cases as it was in past, and not necessarily present, practice. * (automobile title): Most likely from California, where the title is printed on a smaller index-card sized piece of pink paper; in other states the title is typically a full-size 8 1/2" x 11" sheet, usually printed on blue or blue-green paper with borders, similar to a stock certificate.
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